Robert Chesters

...Warren Platner was an American architect and furniture designer born in Baltimore, Maryland, who studied architecture at Cornell University, graduating in 1941. He then was employed in the practices of several important designers...

Clive Edwards

...Finnish-American architect and furniture designer, Saarinen was born in Finland in 1910 and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1923.The son of architect Eliel Saarinen, he grew up in an artistic household and his training...

Robert Chesters

...Italian-American polymath who practiced as a sculptor, artist, graphic designer and print maker, furniture designer, jeweler, and visionary. Although Italian born, he pursued his career in North America and many of his designs have become...

Jukka Savolainen

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Leena Svinhufvud

...Finnish-born textile designer and educator, active in Finland and the United States, Strengell was the daughter of architect Gustaf Strengell and interior designer and textile entrepreneur Anna Strengell, which gave her a solid background...

James Slauson

...The 1951 Festival of Britain, which was held halfway between the two New York World’s Fairs of 1939 and 1964, constituted a cultural barometer of modern design at mid-century that came to be known as Contemporary Style (also Mid-Century...

Sarah Kettley

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Tiffany Washington

...Organic Design refers to both an aesthetic style and a design movement, which draw on nature for their process and contextualization within a natural setting. Rounded and expressive forms, asymmetrical lines, free-flowing curves, linear...

Charlotte Ashby lectures in the history of art and design at Birkbeck, University of London, the Courtauld Institute of Art and Oxford University, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

...Finnish architect and designer, born in Rantasalmi, Saarinen was a graduate of the Architecture Department of Helsinki Polytechnical Institute (1893–7). His practice was shaped by the Arts and Crafts ideal of the total work of art....

Alice Twemlow

...The International Design Conference at Aspen was conceived in 1951 as a forum for designers and businessmen to discuss the shared interests of culture and commerce at the remote location of an old silver mining town in the Colorado Rockies....

Heather Gibson Moqtaderi

...Knoll Associates was preeminent among mid-twentieth-century furniture manufacturers for designing and manufacturing innovative modern furnishings, with particular strength in office interiors and textiles. The company began when its...

...Finnish-American architect and furniture designer, Saarinen was born in Finland in 1910 and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1923.The son of architect Eliel Saarinen, he grew up in an artistic household and his training...

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